Device name selection In my previous instalment, I explained how to use the curl command to control Philips Hue lights. Part of the exercise involved dumping out a huge glop of JSON data and finding a long, gobbledegook of random alphanumeric characters that were the ID of a light we could control. I wanted to […]
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Command Line Text Expansion with Espanso by Ed Tobias
Hi folks, this is Ed Tobias AKA Mr. Ed. I’d like to tell you about an open source text expansion app called Espanso. Espanso works a lot like TextExpander, you know, Allison’s second favorite app after Excel? It was created by Federico Terzi, a talented software engineer from Bologna Italy. The app is free, but […]
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Tiny Tip – Re-usable Cable Ties
The problem to be solved was a bewildering array of cables in a very large box. Step one separate boxes for each basic type: network cables, power cables, audio cables, and USB cables. The next problem to be solved was a bewildering array of USB cables in a large box. If we count USB-A, USB-A […]
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